What does 🤕 Face with Head-Bandage mean?
A bandage wrapped around its head shows this face has been hurt. It covers minor injuries like a bumped head, sports knocks or clumsy accidents, and it stretches just as easily to emotional bruises, such as a harsh comment, a brutal exam or a rough day at work. The tone is usually light, an “ouch” with a little self-pity mixed in.
🤕 Face with Head-Bandage is an emoji from the Smileys & Emotion category (unwell faces), added in Emoji 1.0 in 2015. People use it in messages about head-bandage, hurt, injury and ouch.
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🤕 Face with Head-Bandage on Apple, Google, Microsoft & more
The code is the same everywhere, but every company draws its own artwork. This is how Face with Head-Bandage looks on each platform.
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How do I copy and paste the Face with Head-Bandage emoji?
Press the Copy button at the top of this page and 🤕 is copied to your clipboard. Then paste it anywhere with Ctrl+V, Cmd+V or a long press on your phone. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can also type the shortcode :face_with_head_bandage:.
When was the Face with Head-Bandage emoji added?
🤕 Face with Head-Bandage was added in Emoji 1.0, released in 2015. It is supported on all current versions of iOS, Android, Windows and macOS.
Why does 🤕 look different on my phone?
Every platform draws its own artwork for Face with Head-Bandage. The underlying code (U+1F915) is the same everywhere, so the person you send it to always gets the same emoji, just in their device’s style. Compare the designs in the platform section above.